Battle of Malta has new record numbers, today the game moves to Day 3

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Casino Malta is the venue for the Battle of Malta series for the second time this year. In the spring edition, the €500,000 guarantee was converted into a prizepool worth €913,349, thanks to 1,814 entries. However, in the current autumn edition, the organisers have decided to push the bar higher and have set the guarantee up to €1,500,000.

The tournament had two buy-in levels. The first buy-in was €530+€70, where you received a stack of €40,000 and 40 minute levels for your entry. 15 percent of the players were allowed to advance and the chipleader received a bonus of €10,000 for advancing. The second buy-in level was €265+€35 and all of the above was halved - the starting stack, the length of the blinds, the chipleader bonus and the advancement percentages.

Record numbers

Already Flight 1G took care of a new record when it became the biggest flight in the history of this series, breaking the record set in 2019 when there were as many as 1,752 entries in a single flighty. Now the new record is 1,759 entries in one flight.

The total number of entries in the live edition of Battle of Malta is also a record, which has climbed to 5,799 entries. The prizepool here is also a record at €2,578,172. A prize of €300,800 awaits the winner.

290 players have advanced to Day 3 and all of them have already pocketed at least €2,110 here. The chipleader here is Hendrik Blokdijk from Ireland with a stack of 2,485,000. Rounding out the top 5 players is the winner of the spring version of the Battle of Malta, Vasileios Zisis, who took home €100,000 then and now has a chance to earn a much bigger payday. Zisis currently has a stack worth 1,920,000.

TOP 10:

Position Name Chips Big Blinds
1 Hendrik Blokdijk 2,485,000 124
2 Cosme Martinez 2,145,000 107
3 Darko Svesko 2,025,000 101
4 Viktor Waal 1,930,000 97
5 Vasileios Zisis 1,920,000 96
6 Gabriele Nuzzo 1,840,000 92
7 Vincenzo Mangiapane 1,825,000 91
8 Parminder Kandola 1,800,000 90
9 Daniel Heredi 1,765,000 88
10 Antonios Kandilas 1,765,000 88


Source - Battle of Malta